IMO, this is vibeable with tauri, with some reverse engineering of this. Worth a shot to oneshot these, fable and opus would chew through this and give a FOSS project I think in under 20$ token cost.
currently no, the app isn't open source - however the app itself announces and is quite transparent on how it functions. it takes your audio, transcribes it locally using speech to text, recording the time stamps of each word. when you select text to make slices, Vocal Slice makes use of the time stamps to align the text selection with the correct audio in and out points, matching the text you have selected.
If you extended this to allow assembling audio from multiple takes of the same dialogue, you’d have something very useful for audio drama post-production.
Thanks tene, from your comment i believe this functionality does exist, and i realise that i don't express it very clearly on my website. Essentially when you select text, it tells you how many 'matches' that text has. So if the same line is repeated, you can quickly seek between the matches to cut/AB multiple takes very quickly!
Great! But is the focus exporting short clips? I’m thinking more in terms of assembling long pieces of audio scene by scene, like 30+ mins. That’s a major workflow headache you could make radically easier. Depends on your target audience but you’d save them dozens of hours.
Why is an annual license instead of one-time only purchase? Do you plan on adding additional features in the future that would bloat this project or otherwise justify perpetual payment?
great question - I had an older iteration of this project which was a much smaller scoped utility (without the waveform functionality) that was a one time purchase on itch. The idea with this project is to add additional features over time (um and ah removal, the ability to actually remove parts of the transcription and output audio).
Thank you for the amazing support so far, a few of you have reached out via email to share use cases I hadn't thought of. This tool was originally conceived around long voice acting recording sessions which were a pain to sift through, but the privacy aspect has implications in legal and NDA scenarios too.
Thanks for your question - currently Vocal Slice only supports audio files, so you could download your youtube clip, extract the audio and run it through Vocal Slice. I have plans to natively support video in the future.
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